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OFFICE INDICATOR.

No. 342,393. Patented May 25, 1886.

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ROBERT J. SEABURY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

OFFICE-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.342.393, dated May 25, 1886.

Application filed December 6, 1883. Serial No. 113,730. (No model.)

To all whom it ma /y concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT J. SEABURY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Office-Indicators, of which thefollowingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 a section of an office advertisingindicator constructed in accordance with my invention.

Like letters indicate like parts in both figures.

The object of my invention is to produce a device bearing a design of a clock-face, and having movable minute and hour hands, which, together with printed words, shall serve not only to indicate facts relative to the time of the return of the occupant of an oifice or desk, as is usual in this class of devices, but to serve as an advertising medium, and to construct such device so as to adapt it for suspension and for mailing purposes, whereby in the latter case advertisementsimprinted upon the front or back, or both surfaces, in connectionwith the usual indicating matter, may be gratuitously and advantageously distributed.

A represents the body of the indicator, which is preferably made of sheet metal and folded at its upper and lower edges, as at a, upon itself to stiifen the sheet to inclose a printed card, as A, and to form bearings for the pivotal ends I) ofa bail, B, which are inserted in the folds a at opposite corners of the body, whereby the bail may be swung in line with the body to suspend the indicator, or folded down or against the body, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 2, to adapt the indicator to be inclosed in an ordinary envelope for mailiug purposes. To facilitate the retention of the bail upon a tack or screw, I form a coil, 1), as shown, but do not limit myself to the bails having such a coil, as without it the bail will perform its desired functions.

0 0' indicate the hour and minute hands, respectively, and D the design or representation of the clock-face. A rivet, c, secures the handsO O to the body in such manner that they can be set to indicate any desired time.

E represents suitable spaces for advertising matter, printed either upon the body or upon the card secured in the folds of the body, sub stantially as shown and described.

By the construction shown a simple, cheap, practical, and serviceable office-indicator and advertising device is produced, and by its use advertisements are displayed in a suitable and public manner, and are preserved from loss or destruction, so that the indicator serves a double purpose, and can be sent in the mails, as are ordinary business-cards.

The body may be made of any desirable sheet metal, and it may be printed on directly, as is well known in the art, or it may be embossed with the desired designs, either with orwithout such printing, eitherin one or more colors; or the card A may bear the said printed matter.

The shafts of the hands may be connected together by gearing placed on the back of the device, so that they will revolve together, the long hand making one revolution, while the small hand makes only one-twelfth of a revolution.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim is As a new article of manufacture, an officeindicator consisting of the sheet-metal body A, having its top and bottom edge bent and folded against its face, a card having thereon a clock-face and advertising space retained upon said body by the bent edges, pivoted hands projecting from the clock-face, and the bail B, having its ends bent and pivotally inserted under the folded upper edge of the body, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT J. SEABURY.

Witnesses:

H. D. LOVIS, H. C. HYNARD. 

